Staff at Browne Jacobson received very unwelcome Secret Santa surprises this year, when Christmas vouchers turned out to be compulsory IT training. Browne Jacobson had sent out a staff survey and said ...

It'll probably be more cuddly than this. Freshfields is rolling out resilience training workshops to prepare Gen Z for the rigours of City law, just after one of its first apprentices resigned after ...

The Lowestoft branch of Norton Peskett and, inset, Potter. A law firm was allegedly the victim of a blackmail plot masterminded by a bearded transwoman from Norwich. Ella Potter is alleged to have ...

No hamsters were harmed in the draw. But one intern was sent to A&E. A Taylor Wessing mastermind has been crowned the brainiest reader of 2025 by winning RollOnFriday's Christmas Quiz. Despite ...

Possibly unfairly, Baker McKenzie is most famous for its size. Based in Chicago, it now has 78 offices in 47 jurisdictions and a total of around 4,700 fee earners worldwide. And a whopping 13,000 ...

Staff at DAC Beachcroft (83%) are the most satisfied with their work/life balance in UK private practice, the RollOnFriday Best Law Firms to Work At 2022 has found. The firm was praised for ...

At least no-one's overreacting. Law firms and even the Law Society have been left floundering after the Supreme Court unanimously decided that biological sex determines who is a man and who is a woman ...

The transgender lawyer who has accused Father Ted scribe Graham Linehan of transphobia and is suing him for harassment was once convicted of affray for threatening a man with a golf club, as well as ...

Staff at US firm Sidley Austin (92%) are the most satisfied with their pay in UK private practice, the RollOnFriday Best Law Firms to Work At 2022 has found. "It’s embarrassing that it’s published," ...

Senior lawyers blame salary bunching on the NQ pay war - and the resentment is turning inwards. The sky-high pay of newly-qualified solicitors is fuelling significant resentment around salaries in ...

Over recent weeks, the degree to which law firms have provided their people with satisfactory pay, career development, work/life balance and the office/amenities has become clear thanks to the ...

A partner convicted of child sex abuse crimes has left BCLP, RollOnFriday can reveal. Dan Waxman was a litigation specialist in the firm’s New York office where he led the tort group, and had worked ...